I'll admit I am disappointed to see more fire sets, especially after the 2009 city sets made the future of the line look so promising. It's also strange that there were many online polls from Lego asking what the fans wanted to see in City 2010. I remember that most requests were asking for new lines rather than emergency services. It's funny that the old company motto used to be 'Just Imagine', yet with the appearance of (in my opinion) too many licensed sets and the continuous repetition of fire and police sets we no longer are seeing much in the way of imagination.
I know people are protective of the company that we all love and jump into these threads trying to defend the company's choices. I don't wish my comments to be seen as rude as my thoughts differ from others. I also acknowledge that Lego is a toy and is aimed at children. However, as paying customers I feel people have the right to show their opinions, especially when there is a lot of potential for new lines or to build remakes of old city lines, which aren't updated every couple of years, eg Paradisa style sets, which were very popular.
Also, I would question whether every child would prefer a fire or police set. In my JFOL days I never bought a fire set. They just didn't appeal. I had limited funds and preferred the civilian sets, air shows, trains, outdoors/leisure, pizza shop, beach, harbour.
Having said that, we haven't seen pics yet so the 2010 sets may be very good. I just hope the fire sets contain civilian figures and new torsos, heads, etc for minifigs as well as great parts, which are the most important bits for AFOLs. I'm looking forward to the piglets and (Stadtflitzer) cars! Other than fire, the remaining sets don't seem to stick to a theme, which is a little odd. Have we definitely ruled out Duplo?
